Cle Elum is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 2,211 people and just one neighborhood, Cle Elum is the 212th largest community in Washington.
When you are in Cle Elum, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.16% of Cle Elum’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cle Elum is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cle Elum who work in management occupations (14.22%), maintenance occupations (9.70%), and food service (8.57%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.35% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cle Elum has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cle Elum a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Cle Elum doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Cle Elum with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.97% of adults in Cle Elum have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cle Elum in 2022 was $37,551, which is middle income relative to Washington, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,204 for a family of four. However, Cle Elum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cle Elum is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cle Elum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cle Elum residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Cle Elum also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.63% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cle Elum include European, Irish, English, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Cle Elum is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 27.7% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 1.1% have Croatian ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cle Elum are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.4%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Cle Elum, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.0%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (66.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (12.0%) and 7.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.